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Thursday, October 04, 2007

FRIDAY 26TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

OCTOBER 5, 2007FRIDAY 26TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR I

BARUCH 1:15-22During the Babylonian captivity, the exiles prayed: "Justice is withthe Lord, our God; and we today are flushed with shame, we men ofJudah and citizens of Jerusalem, that we, with our kings and rulersand priests and prophets, and with our ancestors, have sinned in theLord's sight and disobeyed him. We have neither heeded the voice ofthe Lord, our God, nor followed the precepts which the Lord setbefore us. From the time the Lord led our ancestors out of the landof Egypt until the present day, we have been disobedient to the Lord,our God, and only too ready to disregard his voice. And the evils andthe curse that the Lord enjoined upon Moses, his servant, at the timehe led our ancestors forth from the land of Egypt to give us the landflowing with milk and honey, cling to us even today. For we did notheed the voice of the Lord, our God, in all the words of the prophetswhom he sent us, but each one of us went off after the devices of hisown wicked heart, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of theLord, our God."

LUKE 10:13-16Jesus said to them, "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! Forif the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre andSidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth andashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at thejudgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum, `Will you beexalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.' Whoeverlistens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. Andwhoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

REFLECTIONIn today's Gospel Jesus accuses the people of Chorazin and Bethsaidafor their hardness of heart, for their indifference to the Gospel.The Good News had reached them but they did not respond. Greatwonders had been done among them but they were not convinced. Tohave the Good News presented to us is indeed a blessing from God. Itis a privilege. The Good News is the word of God addressed to us.

While there are millions of people who have accepted the Gospelmessage, there are also quite a lot of people who, like the people ofCapernaum, have rejected it. Others have heard Christ's message butfailed to think deeply on it; they are indifferent about it. Theyjust don't want to think about sin and so they have no interest inthinking about redemption.

As Christians, we have been blessed with the Good News. Do we reallytry to learn all we can about it? To have heard God's word is agreat responsibility. A person will be judged according to what hehas learned. When a person receives God's word of wisdom - the GoodNews of Salvation, it becomes for that person a gift, a great glory.But each word of God that has been received carries with it aresponsibility. As Christians we need to give witness to his word.

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